Garment folding board



April 17, 1934. B. LIEBOWITZ GARMENT FOLDING BOARD Filed Dec. 24, 1931 Ema- I N V EN TOR. j/zaaw/rz A TTORNEYS.

Patented Apr. 17, 1934 PATENT OFFICE GARMENT FOLDING BOARD Benjamin Liebowitz, New York, N. Y., assignor, to S. Liebovitz & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application December 24, 1931, Serial No. 582,985

4 Claims.

This invention relates to a garment folding board, and more particularly to a board for use in folding shirts.

The present practice, in folding and fastening i shirts at the laundry or factory, is to use a multiplicity of pins throughout the garment each of which pins is independently and successively applied in a series of separate operations. This securement of independent pins is not only time and labor consuming, but in addition the purchaser of the shirt is compelled laboriously to remove the pins, which latter are apt to prick and injure the fingers both of the person applying as well as the personremoving the same.

In an application filed by me on April 4, 1930, Serial No. 441,441, I have shown and described a form of device whereby folded portions of a garment may be secured by means of a single fastener which is adapted to be removed as a unit by the purchaser of the garment so as to release all of the secured folded portions simultaneously, and thus instantly to render the garment ready for wear or use. A method of folding portions of a shirt or like garment and of fastening the folded portions thereof with a unitary fastening device is described in a co-pending application filed by me of even date herewith.

The present invention relates to a folding board for use in carrying out the invention of the last mentioned application, as well as for other uses,

and has for its object to provide a board with means for locating and holding a unitary fastening device thereon, which means are so constructed that the fastening device will remain in 5. fastened position in the garment upon removal or withdrawal of the folding board.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which:-

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side edge elevation;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective view showing one of the clips for holding a part of the garment during securement of the fastener; and

Fig. 4 is a similar view of one of the collocating devices for the fastener.

In proceeding in accordance with the present invention a board 1 is employed which may be made of any suitable material and desired shape, v and is here shown as of rectangular form to adapt same particularly for use in folding shirts. The

board is preferably provided with a substantially U-shaped clip 2 at each of its upper corners, which clip may be secured by means of any suitable fasteners 3. The means for locating the pin fastener 4, which latter consists preferably of a substantially rectangular strip of cardboard having a pair of upstanding prongs or pins 5 at each end, comprises a pair of substantially L-shaped members secured by fasteners 7 to the board 1, and spring fingers 8 which latter are preferably secured by fasteners 9 both to the members 6 and the board 1. The members 6 are located in spaced relation so that the inner faces of their longer legs engage the ends of the body of the fastener 4 while the inner faces of the shorter legs engage the upper side edge of the fastener body, which latter it will be noted can be easily slid upwardly between the longer legs of the member 6 and engaged beneath the spring fingers 8 and with the aforesaid shorter legs of the members, whereby the fastener is positioned and held ready for use.

In operation, in the instance of shirts, the shirt is laid flat on any suitable support and the folding board is then placed on the back of the shirt with a pin fastener in position on the board as depicted in Fig. 1. The cuffs are then brought to a position on top of the board to extend upwardly relative thereto and may be engaged in the respective clips 2, following which the pins at the ends of the fastener are inserted through the respective sleeves. Then the shoulder portions of the shirt are folded over on top of the sleeve portions of the shirt and are engaged with the pins of the fastener, so as to hold both the sleeve and shoulder in place. The skirt or tail of the shirt is then folded upwardly to overlie the shoulder portions whereupon all of the pins are bent or flattened into clinching position, whereby all of the folded parts of the shirt will be secured in folded position by a single fastener. The final operation is to remove the board which is accomplished by sliding same outwardly, and in this operation it will be apparent that the spring fingers 8 are disengaged from the fastener and the latter remains in its applied position to the shirt.

The present illustration in connection with shirts is merely by way of example to illustrate one use to which the invention can be put, and it is obvious that the invention is equally applicable to garments other than shirts. It is also to be understood that various modifications of the invention may be made within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. A garment folding device comprising a board about which portions of a garment may be folded, means on the board for positioning a fastener for the folded portions of the garment, 11.0

and means for releasably holding the fastener relatively to the positioning means.

2. A garment folding device comprising a board about which portions of a garment may be folded, means carried by the board to removably hold folded portions of the garment, means on the board for positioning a fastener for the folded portions of the garment, and means for releasably holding the fastener relatively to the positioning means.

3. A garment folding device comprising a board about which portions of a garment may be folded, means on the board including two spaced members between which a fastener for the folded portions of the garment may be positioned, and

BENJAMIN LIEBOWITZ.

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